As described on another blog post, vRA IaaS objects can be gathered using the model manager. This article will show you how to interact with this kind of object using vRealize Orchestrator.

On this first sample, we are trying to get a virtual machine named TESTVM02 on the model manager. The VirtualMachine object has a …

The vRealize Automation REST API can be used on vRealize Orchestrator directly with the vCACCAFE plugin, instead of using the HTTP-REST plugin, which can be much more simplier.

Get the vRA REST endpoint

If you have already used the vRealize Automation REST API, you should have noticed that there is around twenty …

Set the certificate private key password in a shell variable

1INKEY="<<CERT_PASSPHRASE>>"

Get a PFX file from original cert

1openssl pkcs12 -export \
2    -in <<fqdn>>.crt \
3    -inkey <<fqdn>>.key \
4    -certfile ca-root.crt \
5    -name "rui" \
6    -passout pass: …

Simple restart of health broker service

1service vrhb-service on # ensure that service is activated
2service vrhb-service restart

Reset health broker service data

In case of non-working health management page (error message displayed or white/missing content), and after having tested the previous troubleshoot method it …